A few days ago swapping the Australian flag at the top right of the iMAC screen for the German one I set the iMAC up for my wife to write a letter on the iMAC to her mother in German. When I returned to Australia the numeric keypad had stopped working. There is insufficient help with OS X to fix it. To my amazement and delight when I went into VRPC to make my accounts up to date with Personal Accounts and Eureka I found the keypad to be working! I am using a standard wired apple keyboard with wired usb connection. When I returned to OS X the keypad was still out of service. I hate OS X. I am currently doing most of my stuff including connecting to the Internet by dial-up modem (which the iMAC currently refuses to do) on a five year old PC with Puppy Linux which with the Rox filer behaves much more like RISC OS.